#Lien would be left with the girls and she’d seek out Zhi for help so it’d be closer to UtOS

[myname-isnia]

You ever have your narrative haunted by a character who isn’t even yours

#I’ve been thinking about lien-hua non-stop for the past two days send help #like… it’s true. she does haunt the sotrl and everything sotrl-adjacent narratives #the pair of tragic sisters. the grief. her death is both the catalyst and the butterfly effect for all following events #P’Li would be a different person. Suiren and Midori wouldn’t be left with Haya. the RL might not have even gone after Korra #because Lien-Hua went through the same thing as P’Li and the two of them would rationalise better together #I don’t think Lien would trust Unalaq at all. and her distrust is different from. for example. Ming-Hua’s natural snark #they might’ve payed more attention #and even if they didn’t and still left. again sotrl wouldn’t happen #Lien would be left with the girls and she’d seek out Zhi for help so it’d be closer to UtOS #and Midori would be a slightly different person too for a… different reason #I love Lien. she’s my beloved child but that’s why this story is a tragedy. she has to die. nothing would happen as it did if she hadn’t #she died and now she haunts the narrative #and it’s not even intentional bc when I came up with Suiren and Midori’s characters or sotrl’s storyline I hadn’t read LaF yet #well. I had. I read what was there before Kat continued it #but I didn’t really pay attention to Lien-Hua’s existence. like yeah. she was there and then she died and now P’Li’s the way she is #back then she didn’t influence the way I thought about my girls in any way #compared to now #now the way P’Li sees her nieces is forever shadowed by the loss of her sister #both as kids and adults. whether they’re happy or fighting #the first makes her remember her childhood before it was so abruptly ended #the latter makes her wonder if she and Lien-Hua would’ve ended up the same way #there is a tinge of resentment there. she wants to see her nieces as they are. not as what they parallel #she knows her sister is long gone. she’ll never see her again unless she wants to go into the fog of lost souls again #but the spirits can be as merciful as they are cruel #once. a girl was powerless to stop her sister’s death. 11 years later. the girl grew up and holds her newborn niece. filled with deja vu #because yes. Midori is Lien-Hua’s reincarnation #she was always so unexplainably drawn to her auntie. much more than Suiren was #so fond of the sun on her skin and spices in her food and the glow of a fire that it’s hard to believe she has no FN blood in her #she gets strange dreams of people she can’t know but feels like she does. of an oddly familiar red eyed girl. of a long time in a dark cell #losing her parents. Haya’s cruelty. her sister’s protection fill her with dread she swears she felt before. Why did it all happen again???